Temple and Hestiatorion. The Combined Edifice on Mount Çatallar Tepe (Turkey)

During the survey of Mycale (modern Dilek Dağları in western Asia Minor), H. Lohmann and his team discovered the ruins of an Ionic temple, dating to the middle of the 6th century BC. Since illegal excavations threatened it, a rescue excavation of the temple was carried out in three annual campaigns from 2005 to 2007. During this excavation, the entire remains of the temple were uncovered. With a length of 28.8 m (approximately 100 feet) and a width of 8.6 m the temple, facing east, is a hekatompedos. The unique layout of the building combines a pronaos with eight interior columns in two rows with an almost quadrangular naos, which has two columns (centred above an older naiskos) and a large room in the western part of the building with three columns along the longitudinal axis. The west room was not accessed through the pronaos and naos, but directly from outside through a door at the western end of the southern wall. Based on this layout and the finds, the west room is interpreted as a room for banqueting. Thus, this building can be described as a combined building, uniting a temple and a hestiatorion under one and the same roof. In this paper, the building is compared to other examples of combined buildings in Archaic Greek architecture, in order to better understand its unique layout and its functions